Blair Peach, a teacher, was struck on the head as police charged at him and others in ‘79. A Met Police report, released in 2010, concluded Peach was “almost certainly” killed by one of six Special Patrol Group officers. Nobody has ever been charged with his death #Defiance

Yesterday was the six month anniversary since the conflict in #Gaza In #Nottingham I interviewed some people from both sides calling for peace. #bbceastmidlandstoday Notts Friends of Standing Together 🟣 Dr Farheen Khan 💙

1976-1981 Britain's Asian community stood tall against Far-Right violence & a rising tide of racist murders. #Defiance lifts the lid on Southall protests, the killing of Blair Peach, the Battle for Brick Lane, & how ‘self-defence is no offence’ became Bradford's rallying call.

For ⁦BBC Panorama⁩ I investigate patient safety at Spire, a major private provider used by the NHS.

With more than 6 million people in England on the waiting list for operations, is the NHS putting patients at risk by paying for them to go private? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-687170…

Exc: The widow of a postmaster who took his own life hours after his post office was raided has been denied compensation.

Jay Sivasubramaniam is the 5th known Horizon suicide. MPs say his story shows the Post Office's 'total lack of compassion'. 🧵👇

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Israeli government says it will block Al Jazeera from broadcasting bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

Great work by Hannah Price and 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚓𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚕

'Damaging' testimony withheld from pregnant postmistress trial - from me and Lorna Acquah. Thanks to Seema Misra and Richard Moorhead for their thoughts bbc.co.uk/news/uk-686061…

Really happy we got shortlisted at this year’s Sandford St Martin - thanks to Helen Grady for commissioning this and giving us so much creative freedom! ⭐️

Tamil Tiger fighters killed in Sri Lanka war buried ‘chaotically’ in secret mass grave

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Such a horrific story in our report tonight on Gaza, filmed by local journalists doing brave & important work:

A Dr in northern Gaza bought her baby son into her own hospital suffering dehydration so severe it’s likely fatal

“I would give my heart’s blood to help him”

An urdu poster in support of the miners during 1984-85 strike.

'Support the Miners'

(Designed by Mukhtar Dar, Sheffield Asian Youth Movement)

Ishrat Baig gave £40,000 to charity Penny Appeal in #Ramadan 2017 to build an orphanage, but says she feels 'cheated' because, seven years later, the job has yet to be finished. #BBCNews
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Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities. pressgazette.co.uk/diversity/gary…

You need to read the science secretary of state’s withdrawal of extremism claims against a scientist (below) in conjunction with this lawyer’s statement. bindmans.com/knowledge-hub/… It is quite the story. I can’t remember another occasion where a serving minister paid damages for…

NEW: Police in Manchester say an officer’s behaviour was unacceptable and must never be repeated after video emerged of her dragging a rough sleeper across the ground and deliberately “stamping” on his stomach.

Aspiring journalists!
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In the midst of a genocide, these Tamil children were abducted by the Sri Lankan military.

Some were last seen being taken onboard army buses.

Where are they?

7 years of protest.
15 years of searching.
75 years of struggle.

Still no justice.